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Yes Bill, you are not a scientist. So why should your 'opinion' about a scientific issue be trusted against the carefully peer-reviewed evidence-based conclusions of professional climate scientists?

Your opinions about global warming have no credibility at all unless you can explain how the biosphere can retain more heat energy due to anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions without increasing global air and or ocean temperatures. Failing that, what is the mechanism by which the planets energy balance is unaffected by our greenhouse gas emissions.

After trying to answering these questions, perhaps you will understand that denialist arguments that global warming has 'stopped' defy all known scientific principles, and that variations in air temperature observations on a daily, monthly or yearly basis at one place or in one region only tell a small part of the whole complicated global climate story.

The only people capable of advising us of the consequences of that extra heat retention are professional climate scientists - not people like you or an odd collection of self-proclaimed 'experts' dredged up by denialists.